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Summary

The Sixth Edition of Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy presents readers with a comprehensive theoretical and conceptual framework for analyzing a wide range of social welfare policies.Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy illustrates theoretical points by offering examples from a cross-section of program areas including income maintenance, child welfare, model cities, day care, community action, and mental health. The authors show how social theories and individual versus collective value orientations influence policies. The Sixth Edition continues to include a broad overview of the most recent policy trends in the advanced welfare states related to eligibility, finance, delivery, and benefit designs. A new chapter broadens the scope of this book by applying the social policy framework to international policy trends in the advanced welfare states, comparing them to developments in the United States.

Table of Contents

Preface

xi

The Field of Social Welfare Policy

1

(35)

Institutional Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy

2

(10)

Evolving Institutions and the Welfare State

12

(2)

Analytic Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy

14

(3)

Political Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy

17

(3)

Individualist and Collective Approaches to Planning

20

(2)

Conceptions of the Public Interest

22

(3)

Competing Values: Participation, Leadership, and Expertise

25

(2)

Why Policy Analysis Is Relevant to Direct Service Practitioners

27

(2)

Emerging Issues: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare

29

(4)

Notes

33

(3)

The Modern Welfare State

36

(26)

The Evolving Welfare State

37

(7)

Theories of Welfare Growth

44

(2)

Is America Exceptional?

46

(1)

Welfare Goals

47

(3)

Welfare Scope

50

(1)

Welfare Realms

51

(8)

Emerging Issues: Renegotiating the Boundaries

59

(1)

Notes

60

(2)

A Framework for Social Welfare Policy Analysis

62

(34)

Benefit Allocations in the Social Market and the Mixed Economy of Welfare

63

(4)

Elements of an Analytic Framework: Dimensions of Choice

67

(3)

An Example: The Transformation of Social Services

70

(5)

Application of the Framework

75

(1)

Distributive Justice in Public Assistance

76

(8)

Individual and Collective Values in Public Assistance

84

(3)

Theories, Assumptions, and Social Choice

87

(3)

Emerging Issues: The Search for Equity

90

(2)

Notes

92

(4)

The Basis of Social Allocations

96

(38)

Who Shall Benefit?

97

(2)

Universality and Selectivity in Income Maintenance

99

(6)

Child Support and Asset Building

105

(1)

Social Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness

106

(8)

Another Perspective on Allocation: A Continuum of Choice

114

(4)

Allocative Principles and Institutional-Residual Conceptions of Social Welfare